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LIES,
DAMNED LIES, AND THE MEDIA
About
the way the media turn truth on its head
The world is
going crazy and television news and other communication media have very
largely been complicit in this.
Television and newsprint and music all exert extraordinarily powerful influences
upon the way we think. That makes them - and they are - very dangerous to our right-mindedness. We are lied to, misinformed and manipulated and the media willfully put this all across and it cascades down into the public consciousness. Don't shoot the messenger? Sometimes the messenger
deserves to be shot.
We have clearly not been judgemental enough in the recent past. We have
too readily and without question accepted insane polcor ('politically
correct') and feministic precepts. These zealots have set out to make us throw out normal critical judgement and adopt kneejerk reactions and responses (e.g. Women=good, victims, innocent. Men=bad, perpetrators, guilty. Black people=good. White people=bad).
And they blatantly promote false myths (e.g. that men are more violent
than women, that girls are brighter than boys, that all rapists and paedophiles are men, and so forth).
We are being well and truly indoctrinated by the zealot-controlled media. (See the page about BBC pro-feminist bias - the BBC has in recent years been busily recruiting these nutters.) The present government is riddled with nutters too - many female ministers seriously advocate fatherless families as a norm.
And take the Rowntree Foundation, an educational charity well-known for propagating feminista and polcor spin, which recently asserted that its 'research' had shown that girls are brighter than boys and that coloured boys do better than white boys. The foundation's end objective is evident even to those
with only half a brain between them. It is to make white boys feel inferior
to girls and coloureds.
And we swallow it all. Hook, line and sinker!
Much so-called 'news' is in the nature of propaganda and many 'reports',
'studies' or 'findings' are bogus or contrived and intended to create false
perceptions in the public mind. (In the scientific community, to take another
instance, research papers can hardly be accepted at face value since they
are largely sponsored by vested commercial interests. And in many cases
they are written just in order to get funding grants from government.)
So what is it all about? It is about deranged zealots claiming that
they are being victimised or otherwise exploited by men. But, as you will
see, it is in essence sexism and hateful bigotry against men and boys. (And against women who won't swallow the feminist ideology. Read about the cruel and spiteful ordeal the feminists put a caring young woman, Erin Pizzey, through.)
You are invited to read what follows very closely ...
"Feminism
was a bad idea to begin with, and has evolved into a ravenous monster that
eats equal rights for breakfast. It's time people understood the extreme
anti-male bias in western culture before it's too late. We don't have much
time left ...
You may be surprised to learn that almost everything you have been taught
is a lie. Who's been lying to us? I'm glad you asked. The answer is: Everyone.
Now, don't be hatin' on your neighbour or your teacher or your pastor.
They're only passing on what they were taught. The original lies came from,
you guessed it, 'feminism'.
But why would the feminists lie to us? Wasn't feminism instrumental in
freeing women from the "tyrannous yoke of male-dominated society"? Aren't
we really better off now? In a word, NO. The fact is that the original
conditions cited by the so-called women's movement either existed in a
way markedly different than what we were told or they didn't exist at all.
- Could
women vote before the 19th amendment? Yes, they could. Not all women but
not all men either.
- Could
women obtain a higher education before the women's movement? Yes, they
could. Not all women but not all men either. Men and women attended different
colleges, but both had equal access to education.
- Could
women get birth control? No, they couldn't. It wasn't available to men
or women.
- Could
women work outside the home? Yes, they could. In fact, they very often
did.
- Did
boys all of a sudden just get stupid and girls all of a sudden just get
smart? Is it something in the water?? Of course not. We have radically
changed the way we teach to what feminism has dictated."
(from
Woman
Against Feminism') |
Not all
women are feminists. Very far from it. But the feminista is a powerful
vocal and politically influential minority and its poison spreads throughout
society like a creeping miasma. Strangely enough many of feminism’s most
effective opponents are women rather than men. (But perhaps not so strange
because normal women know from their own experiences and observations that
feminist ideology is ludicrously out of tune with women’s priorities and
needs.)
The notion
of the American woman as a powerless 'victim' is one of the most absurd
notions ever foisted upon anyone. American women live, on average, seven
years longer than men. They control 86% of all personal wealth [PARADE
Magazine, May 27, 1990], and make up 55% of current college graduates.
Women cast 54% of the votes in Presidential elections, so they can hardly
claim to be left out of the political decision-making process! They win
almost automatically in child custody disputes. Women suffer only 6% of
the work-related fatalities (the other 94% are suffered by men). Women
are the victim of only about 35% of violent crimes, and only about 25%
of all murders, yet because of our society's exaggerated concern and respect
for them, special legislation has been passed to punish 'violence against
women' - as if it were a more heinous crime than 'violence against men'.
(Feminists claim to want 'equality' and this is an example of what 'equality'
means to them i.e. preferential treatment.) Two out of every three dollars
spent on health care is spent on women, and even if you don't count pregnancy-related
care, women still receive more medical care than men - yet feminists still
holler that womens health is being 'neglected', and far too many of us
credulously believe them. Of the 25 worst jobs, as ranked by the Jobs Related
Almanac based on a combination of salary, stress, security, and physical
demands, 24 of them are predominantly, if not almost entirely, male, which
might explain why men commit over 80% of all suicides.
-
Robert
Sheaffer, Writer and Researcher |
Yet, despite
all this, many women persist in thinking of themselves as 'feminists'.
After all, it sounds perfectly reasonable on the face of it - equality
between the sexes, right? But if they knew what feminism is
really
about then they would perhaps be a little more circumspect. We ought not
forget that the founders of feminism were borderline psychotics with pronounced
sado-narcissistic traits. Like attracts like and so disordered women
continue to be attracted into feminist ranks right up to this the present
day.
And understand that there is no such thing as a 'halfway house' or 'reasonable'
feminism. The feminista's stance is a ruthless and uncompromising 'you're
either 100% with us or against us' and the line between feminism and homosexuality
(also known as 'lesbianism') is blurred.
Feminists and their adherents work hard to distort our reality in
order to make their reality feel safer. Theirs is an all-pervasive
personality disorder, aptly named because the minds of these people work
differently from normal healthy women.
Being Feminine not
Feminist
In the 1960s,
the American feminista rebranded itself as 'women's liberation' with 'bra
burning' as its trademark (although there is no evidence that 'bra burning'
ever took place except as a publicity stunt in front of TV cameras). In
more recent times it has dropped the 'women's lib' label but it remains
what it has always been - a vicious and insidious men-hating ideology without
moral
authority, without intellectual legitimacy, and with characteristics
like that of a cult.
The zealots at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the U.S. have long
been associated with political extremism (like polcor, feminism, and inventing
the car bomb) and when the University's Chancellor, Donna Shalala, was
appointed Secretary of Health & Human Services by former president
Bill Clinton she used her office to push these ideologies further.
The ultimate aim of feminism is to create a hateful society in which age-old
ties among men, women and children are discarded. It is not about 'equality'
for females at all, it is about 'superiority'. The feminista wants to call
all the shots.
Feminism, the Hate
Cult
Make no
mistake about it. Real feminism is about unabated hatred of men and boys.
Some of the more forthright feminists even openly advocate the disfigurement
or 'culling' of men.
Feminism benefits from human error, misery, and chaos. It divides
and destroys. It is anti-father, anti-male, anti-mother, anti-child,
even anti-woman. Feminism is an insidious ideology manipulating itself
through fronts like women's studies, women's issues, women's shelters,
social services, counselling.
Feminism has always been a fraud. It is not at all about 'equality'.
It is about getting preferential treatment for feminists. It deceptively
manipulates its cult-like characteristics as a political force claiming
to promote 'women's rights' whilst denying the rights of others. It operates
in isolation and at the expense of society as a whole and at the expense
of family life.
This deception went undetected for many years. It is a deception that polarises
the sexes, divides and attacks the family and children, all through the
use of half-truths and false logic. It is a deception which has by now
infiltrated most levels of government, church and social movements and
which now proliferates itself through our educational systems. Even now
we can see the signs of men being turned into an underclass in the eyes
of the police and of the law.
The involvement of an anti-men ideology deceptively disguised as 'women's
issues' went undetected at first because it was based on the insidious
half-truth - i.e. 'the truth that is a lie'.
Feminism is founded on half-truths like victimisation and exploitation.
The work of some women, like mothers confined to home and households to
manage their families, is scorned by feminists because the feminista agenda
gives no importance to the family. Similarly, the sacrifices made by some
husbands and fathers are totally ignored. And in this world of half-truths
the exploitation of men, women and children by the powers-that-be is ignored
because it does not fit in with the feministic agenda.
Too many
prominent feminist leaders are role models of intolerance and anti-male
prejudice. Too many play fast and loose with the truth. Students in the
feminist classrooms imbibe the false statistics on women's victimisation;
they learn all about how men keep women subjugated and frightened. Is it
any wonder that the more sensitive among them become horrified at what
the sex/gender system is doing to women? Hysteria on campus over the male
threat to women's safety and dignity runs higher every year. In that atmosphere,
not only fairness but logic and sober learning are at a grave disadvantage.
- Christina
Hoff Sommers, Reformed Feminist Writer |
The result of feminism has been
a combination of disorder and state tyranny, cascading from America to
the rest of the world. Feminism has meant growing deceit, heartlessness
and brutality in daily life, resulting in particular suffering for the
weak. It has meant confusion and misery for the young, who have been deprived
of stable family life and concrete ideals of adulthood. It has meant the
destruction of local and popular institutions and replaced them with ever
more powerful and irresponsible state bureaucracies. It has set some women
'free' but only to turn themselves into sexual commodities. It is obvious
that feminism is more about polarisation rather than about normality and
harmony.
The selective manipulation of victimisation, one of the half-truths, is
a powerful tool in promoting their anti-male agenda. The course of the
so-called 'women's movement' was led by individuals like Gloria Steinem,
who had a questionable childhood surrounded by a negative family life and
mental illness. This 'black and white thinking' is a common symptom of
mental illness and it is a prominent characteristic of the feminist movement.
The selective manipulation of women's victimisation ignored victimisation
of men and children and ignored the victimisation of some women by other
women. The psychosis of this manipulation is reflected in the polarisation
of victimisation of an individual based on sex, to the false assumption
that this affected all individuals of the same sex, normally women, and
not any men. This is a clear logical error of philosophy that has intentionally
been overlooked in the feminista's blinkered thinking.
This selective manipulation of violence ignored all other forms of abuse.
This is perhaps the most obvious and blatant manipulation by this movement,
that ignores all the many forms of abuse, including passive manipulative
abuse. Manipulation of 'male versus female' victimisation ignored all other
form of victimisation, including social class discrimination.
Breaking the Shackles
of Zealotry
If there is anything we learn
from all this it is that if we have problems, and we all do, then our best
strategy is to take a positive approach to resolving them. It is tragic
that in the era of the 'me' generation, problems are looked upon in isolation,
in the self and in the now, when we should realise that these problems
will affect our children and their grandchildren and their spouses whoever
they might be. God only knows. People of suspect are those without children
who have no link to the future, and or those with personality disorders.
In the end polcor and feminism cannot win because they radically undermine
any stable and productive ordering of natural private life. By disordering
reproduction and child-rearing and the most basic human connections they
put long-term social survival in question. They have done a great deal
of damage and are bound to do much more before they destroy themselves.
Relearning
Freedom You've been told all
your life that you live in a free society. So by now you probably even
believe it. But you are not free. You have not been free for
a long time. In these dark days we are living under the shadow of twin
evils, feminism (sexism against men) and polcor (political correctness).
All that remains now is to decide what you intend to do about it.
Relevant Links
What
is Political Correctness?
New
Zealand Equality Education Foundation
Feminist
Narcicissism and Political Power
Empty
Days - Who is PolCor?
The
Australian Men's Party
Project
for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions
The
World According To Bob
These
days it seems that men can't do anything right
One
of the pupils refused to join the Hitler Youth ...
Cool
Tools 4 Men Links & Resources
Winning
a Favourable Custody Arrangement for Men and Women
Feminism's
Fanatical Hate The Murdering, Degrading and
Slandering of Men
Fathers
4 Justice / Canada
Women's
Freedom Network Not setting different standards
of excellence, morality, or justice for men and women
Fathers
4 Justice / USA
Fathers
4 Justice / Australia
Angry
Harry Feminism For Male College Students
Men's
Activism News
Women
in the Fathers' Rights Movement Women often
are supplying the muscle behind the fathers' rights movement
Domestic
Abuse Helpline for Men and Women
Mathew's
Anti-Feminism For the majority of my youth, I was
what one might call 'pro-feminism' because I believed a lot of what was
said ...
Upstream:
Women Critical of Feminism
The Open Directory listing of
opposing
views to feminism. Also see the section about feminism
in their section on men's issues
The
Feminist Road to Totalitarianism by Aidan Rankin
What
Sex Is Your Brain? Excerpt from the book Brain
Sex, by Anne Moir and David Jessel, on differences in men's and women's
brains and their consequences
The
Garbage Generation Book by Daniel
Amneus on the disastrous decline of the two-parent family and the need
to strengthen the father's role, its weakest link
Bring
back the stay-at-home mom Daycare really isn't
so great, no matter what feel-good propaganda you may have read
Daycares
Don't Care, Where is the Love? A collection of materials
on daycare
Home-Alone
America The social consequences of children raising
themselves
Domestic
Violence Against Men in Colorado Our objective
is to fix the problem, not the blame
CPF
The Fatherhood Coalition Promoting shared parenting
and the end of discrimination and persecution faced by divorced and unwed
fathers
The
Men's Activism News Network
U.K.
Men's Movement
Welcome
to NoJustice.info Fighting anti-men and anti-family
law and policy in Canada
Civil
Rights Organisation Campaigning against
false allegations of sexual harassment and countering these
Fathers
and Men's Rights by Stephen Baskerville, Ph.
D. The Divorce Regime, Family Court Corruption, and Government's
War on Fathers
Modern
Manhood by Roger Scruton
Progressive
Education's War on Boys by Janet Daley. In
Britain, progressive education banished competition and testing as harmful
and elitist
Wimps
and Barbarians Discussion of what the destruction
of civilised gender ideals has meant for young men
A
Boyhood Stolen a review of As
Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl by
John Colapinto (HarperCollins, 2000)
NoMarriage.com
Marriage and Relationship Advice for Men and Women
Ladies
Against Feminism Asking
feminists to propose solutions to real-life problems would be like asking
an arsonist to put out a fire
Concerned
Women for America Protecting Moral Values
REAL
Women of Canada An independently-minded
women's group: Women's rights but not at the expense of human rights
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